mono
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Garbz, I agree that ideally no data should be added but the card's driver doesn't allow 88.2. With this cheap card you take what you can get and in that respect I prefer the sound of 96 to 44.
Unfortunately after more really critical listening, the power supply on this card doesn't quite filter out all system noise. It does far far better than the card it replaced in that system but during heavy CPU load and drive activity I can still hear vary faint staticy-blip sorts of sounds.
Oddly I don't recall hearing that noise on my other AV-710, though it was never tried in same system and it sounds different anyway due to having the whole output stage gone, going straight from DAC to RCAs on the card, then a headamp.
Unfortunately after more really critical listening, the power supply on this card doesn't quite filter out all system noise. It does far far better than the card it replaced in that system but during heavy CPU load and drive activity I can still hear vary faint staticy-blip sorts of sounds.
Oddly I don't recall hearing that noise on my other AV-710, though it was never tried in same system and it sounds different anyway due to having the whole output stage gone, going straight from DAC to RCAs on the card, then a headamp.